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During the fall of 2009, George Papandreou headed the ticket of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, known by its acronym PASOK, against the then‐governing conservative party, New Democracy, in the Greek national elections. Papandreou ran on a platform that featured highly expansive fiscal spending. During a press conference on September 13, 2009, he was asked where he would find the money to fund his party’s spending proposals. His answer was that given in the above quotation, by which he meant that Greece had abundant fiscal space to increase government spending; he believed that tax revenues could be sharply raised through stricter enforcement of laws against tax evasion. On October 4, PASOK won a landslide electoral victory, garnering 43.9 percent of the popular vote, compared with 33.5 percent for the second‐place, incumbent New Democracy party, with the result that Papandreou became Greece’s prime minister. In the following months, a sovereign‐debt crisis
By Grace Beahm Alford gbeahm@postandcourier.com
A map of a proposed revamp of Columbiaâs Finlay Park
Chris Trainor
COLUMBIAÂ â Roughly halfway into a financial year marred by the worst public health crisis in a century, taxes collected on restaurant sales in South Carolina s capital are down 37 percent compared to this time last year. And with an end to COVID-19 still far from reality, the cash-strapped city has slashed expenses and paused long-awaited projects.
That includes plans for the much-neglected downtown park once called Columbia s Crown Jewel. The renovation relied, in part, on the 2 percent tax on dining and drinking. Â
BIG by Matt Stoller
Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai need to be indicted.
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